Software Engineer - OpenStack

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform Ubuntu is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud data science AI engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office-based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person in interesting locations around the world to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder-led profitable and growing.

We are hiring a Software Engineer for our OpenStack Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity for a software engineer passionate about open source software Linux and OpenStack. Come build a rewarding meaningful career working with the best and brightest people in technology at Canonical a growing international software company.

As a software engineer on the OpenStack Engineering team you’ll be building Charmed OpenStack and Ceph a suite of open source Python based charms for deploying and managing OpenStack and Ceph. Your work will bring cloud platform technologies to a wide range of users and computing environments from desktops to bare metal servers. This role requires a python software developer with a passion for automating infrastructure as code.

Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter distributed systems and open source. Canonical is a globally distributed team of engineers who share that passion and you will need to work well in that context.  Engineers who thrive at Canonical are mindful of the dynamics of the open source ecosystem and equally aware of the needs of large innovative organizations.

This job involves international travel several times a year usually for one week at a time.

What you’ll do

• Collaborate proactively with a distributed team

• Write high quality code to create new features

• Debug issues and produce high quality code to fix them

• Review code produced by other engineers

• Discuss ideas and collaborate on finding good solutions

• Ensure the success of OpenStack and Ceph on multiple architectures

• Work from home with global travel 2 to 4 weeks for internal and external events

Who you are

• You love technology and working with brilliant people

• You are curious flexible articulate and accountable

• You value soft skills and are passionate enterprising thoughtful and self-motivated

• You have a Bachelor’s or equivalent in Computer Science STEM or similar degree

• You have experience with Python

• You have interest and experience with two or more of the following:Ubuntu Linux - kernel or userspace Kubernetes OpenStack Ceph AI/ML QEMU/KVM LXC/LXD Python Go C Postgresql Mongo Debian packaging scalable web services

• You have experience with non-x86 architectures including s390 arm64 power and others

• You have experience with OpenStack OVN Openvswitch and other related cloud technologies

What Canonical Offers

• Learning and Development

• Annual Compensation Review

• Recognition Rewards

• Annual Leave

• Priority Pass for travel

• Flexible working option

Canonical believes a diverse workforce enhances our ability to deliver world class software and services which meet the world’s computing needs. We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity or expression sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age or veteran status.

About Canonical

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI IoT and the cloud we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004.​ Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently work smarter learn new skills and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience perspectives and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity we will give your application fair consideration.

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